Pub. Util. Code, § 2841.5 · Article 1. Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions Reduction Act
Pub. Util. Code, § 2841.5
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
A local publicly owned electric utility serving retail end-use customers shall establish a program that does both of the following:
(a) Allows retail end-use customers to utilize combined heat and power systems that reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by achieving improved efficiencies utilizing heat that would otherwise be wasted in separate energy applications.
(b) Provides a market for the purchase of excess electricity generated by a combined heat and power system, at a just and reasonable rate, to be determined by the governing body of the utility.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 713, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2008.
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